MERIWAN, East Kurdistan, — Iranian regime has increasing putting pressure on the Kurdish villagers to leave their current jobs and enlist in the pro-state local militias known as “Besij”.
According to our local correspondence, the chief of armed forces of Meriwan city colonel Mehdidost had attended the village of Duplure located at the middle of East and South of Kurdistan.
It is reported that colonel Mehdidost had threatened the locals and told them that if they work on the borders and get killed by their forces, they bodies will not be returned to their families.
He commanded the villagers to leave their current jobs and enlist in Besij and take up arms against the Kurdish resistance movement led by the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK).
These kinds of threatening of the locals have terrified the villagers and the workers who toil on the borders making living for their families.
It should be pointed that tens of Kurdish workers are killed by the Iranian militaries that guard the pseudo-borders of Kurdistan.
Iranian regime has systematically kept the Kurdish population in poverty and never gave a slightest though to create jobs in Kurdistan. By keeping the Kurds in poverty they seek to manage to control the Kurds.
Prevalence of unemployment in Kurdistan has forced many people to work on the border regions smuggling goods into the country.
Many people who sought to make living for their families have been tapped in the ambushes of the Iranian forces and killed by their gunfire.